Heinz Kluss

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Heinz Kluss (born July 3, 1934 in Großgiesmannsdorf , Upper Silesia; † January 17, 2019 in Bonn ) was a German officer in the General Staff Service of the Air Force of the Bundeswehr , member of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD), publicist and politician ( SPD ).

Life

The son of a worker from Upper Silesia , Kluss, joined the Air Force in 1957. On the second path of education he got into the officer career . He completed his flying training in Canada . He later performed various functions in air defense . He was also deployed at the NATO headquarters in Brussels .

From 1977 to 1985 he worked in the military counterintelligence service, most recently as commander of MAD Group 3 in Düsseldorf .

On August 29, 1983, on the occasion of the blockades of barracks by peace activists, he published the article When imprisonment becomes a popular sport in the FAZ column , with an appeal to Heinrich Böll not to support these actions. In the FAZ edition of September 7, 1983, Böll replied in the form of a multi-page open letter to Kluss entitled We are not endangering democracy, we are making use of it.

In 1984, Kluss got involved in the Kießling affair as the commander of MAD Group 3, which was commissioned with the investigation in 1983 , where he was "found guilty" according to his own statements. He had to fight for his rehabilitation for three years. Until the end he also fought for the honor of the sergeant major at the time, Peter Idel, whom the then MP Joschka Fischer accused of having disclosed details of the investigation "disguised as a lieutenant colonel".

In 1991, at the time working for the Bundeswehr Verification Center in Geilenkirchen , Kluss managed the first CFE on-site inspection in a barracks in the Soviet Union . His last job as Colonel i. G. took him to Tallinn , where he advised the Estonian Defense Minister.

In 1993, Kluss retired after 37 years of service. After leaving the Bundeswehr, he worked for three years as a freelance journalist for Swiss magazines and from 1996 to 1999 director of the Defense and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly . In addition, he was active in the German Society for Foreign Policy and the working group for the military and social sciences .

Kluss was a member of the SPD and became chairman of the SPD district association in the Main-Tauber district in the late 1970s . He ran for the SPD in the European elections in Germany in 1979 and in the federal election in 1980 .

Kluss built the largest ÖTV group within the Bundeswehr . He had two sons with his wife Gisela. Most recently he lived in Wachtberg near Bonn.

Publications (selection)

  • Social Democracy and Inner Leadership. Leading article in: Neue Gesellschaft , No. 13, 1966, pp. 171 ff.
  • Excessive demands due to insufficient demands or the problem of slouching in the Bundeswehr. In: Defense. Journal for all military issues. 1966, p. 349 ff.
  • Up-to-date training in technical armed forces. In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau , No. 5, 1967
  • On leadership problems in the army and society. In: Wehrkunde , 1968, p. 131 ff.
  • Generalist and specialist. In: Soldat und Technik , 1970, p. 119.
  • Missile Defense and Security. The American anti-record defense system SAFEGUARD. In: Wehrkunde , March 1970, p. 133 ff.
  • Splendor and misery of specialization. In: Wehrkunde , 1972, p. 518 ff.
  • with Christian Seebode : On the practice of political education in the Bundeswehr. In: Europäische Wehrkunde , H. 10, 1977, P. 512 ff.
  • When locking up becomes a popular sport. In: FAZ , August 29, 1983.
  • The transparent secret service. In: Europäische Wehrkunde , H. 2, 1987, p. 105.
  • The disarmament of conventional forces and their control. First practical experience. In: Europa-Archiv , H. 6, March 1999, S. 167 ff.
  • Not just a military alliance. Comments on misunderstandings regarding NATO and its opening. In: Paul Klein ; Rolf P. Zimmermann (Ed.): Aspects of the eastward expansion of NATO. (= Volume 26 of Military and Social Sciences ), Nomos, Baden-Baden 1999, p. 11 ff.
  • The Amselfeld and the new NATO. In: Reinhard Brühl ; Lothar Schröter (Ed.): 50 Years of NATO. Balance sheet and perspectives. GNN-Verlag , Society for Messaging and Distribution, 2000, p. 37 ff.
  • Teacher war? Findings from the military actions to pacify the Balkans for security policy and armed forces structures. In: Paul Klein; Dieter Walz (ed.): The Bundeswehr on the threshold of the 21st century. (= Volume 27 of Military and Social Sciences ). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, p. 81 ff.
  • Beyond Clausewitz? Conflict Prevention and Warfare in the 21st Century. In: Gerhard Kümmel ; Sabine Collmer (Ed.): Asymmetrical Conflicts and Combating Terrorism. Prototypes of future wars. Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2003, p. 107 ff.
  • Immanuel Kant and the range of the cannons. Moving away from the illusion of eternal peace. In: Internationale Politik , H. 11-12, Berlin 155 ff. (Received from Reinhard Hesse in Kant-Studien , 98th year, Walter de Gruyter , 2007, p. 218 ff. ( Digitized version ))

literature

  • Kluss, Heinz. In: Reinhard Brühl; Lothar Schröter (Ed.): 50 Years of NATO. Balance sheet and perspectives. GNN-Verlag , Society for Messaging and Dissemination, 2000, p. 189 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Heinz Kluss: Full soldier life. Autobiography in the Air Force portal, May 9, 2016.
  • Heinz Kluss, 84th obituary in: Der Spiegel , 5/2019, January 26, 2019 ( available online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Müller-Enbergs ; Armin Wagner (ed.): Spies and news dealers. Secret service careers in Germany 1939–1989. Ch.links Verlag, 2016, p. 298, fn. 41.
  2. ^ Heinrich Böll: Writings and speeches. 1982-1983. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , 1987, p. 113 ff.
  3. ^ Wörner affair. Small official channel. Der Spiegel , No. 9/1984, February 27, 1984, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Resolution recommendation and report of the Defense Committee (12th Committee) as the 1st committee of inquiry under Article 45a, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law. Printed matter 10/1604, German Bundestag - 10th electoral period, June 13, 1984, p. 17 ff.
  5. ↑ Klaus Storkmann: A question of honor. 30 years ago the Wörner-Kießling affair. In: Mission , 54th year, H. 293, March 2014, p. 47 ff. ( PDF )
  6. ↑ Jane Sharp: Striving for Military Stability in Europe. Routledge, 2010, p. 218. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  7. ^ Siegfried Neumann: On the death of Heinz Kluss - longtime SPD district chairman and candidate for the European Parliament and the Bundestag was considered the "prototype of the citizen in uniform". Party loses a prominent social democrat. Mannheim Morning , January 30, 2010.
  8. ↑ Municipal statistics 1979. Election to the European Parliament on June 10, 1979. Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, 1979, p. 139.
  9. ^ Hans-Otto Mühleisen : Bundestag election 1980. Analyzes, documents, forecasts. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1980, p. 312.
  10. ↑ Obituary - January 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Kluss, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general staff officer, publicist and secret agent
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Großgiesmannsdorf , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 17th January 2019
Place of death Bonn